Posted on 10/23/2010 1:02:42 PM PDT by speelurker
In an election year when good news has been scarce for Democrats, anxious party strategists are heartened by at least one development: In states that have started voting, early indications are that Democratic turnout could be stronger than expected.
Despite the much-discussed "enthusiasm gap," early balloting suggests that the voter turnout engine that Barack Obama revved up in 2008 has not sputtered out entirely, according to the Atlas Project, a Democratic consulting firm that analyzed voter data.
The firm told its clients Friday that early ballots in the 17 states where voting has been sufficient to draw historical comparisons show a partisan balance that looks very much like that in 2006, the year Democrats took back the House and the Senate.
"In many states, it even appears that the electorate so far is a little more Democratic than in 2006, although it is still early in the early voting process," reported the firm, which was founded by Mary Beth Cahill, manager of John F. Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, and Steve Rosenthal, a former political director for the AFL-CIO. "Further, in some states like Georgia, Florida, Michigan and North Carolina, African Americans in particular seem to be making up a greater proportion of early voters at this point than in 2006."
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This story is LOL funny. The MSM is in FULL CAMPAIGN MODE NOW.
LOL isnt this the same garbage they tried peddling in 2008..GOP don’t bother voting, you won’t win..if more had gone to the damn polls we might have won..don’t believe the BS from the Obama mania media..GO VOTE
It will be interesting in about 3 or 4 days to see if the Tea Party and Republicans can re-establish the momentum.
We got the MO.
This is the second anti-Obama stories in two days at the Post. What’s happening there? Did they do an exorcism of the building?
Come on America! Get out the vote on November 2nd. Let's show the piggies that we haven't quit.
Belay my #9. I misread.
Mary Beth Cahill, manager of John F. Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, and Steve Rosenthal, a former political director for the AFL-CIO
This must be from the onion lol
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t at least a little concerned that the ‘enthusiasm gap’ will fail to materialize in a big way. Maybe I’m just a bit gun-shy because of the hope I had in the angry Hillary voters that were supposed to switch to McLaim in 2008.
I've already voted, can I get cocky? ; )
Just this morning this was posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2613162/posts
‘Early voting favoring GOP’
So which is it? (and no I didn’t read this entire piece-tired of the yo-yo effect)
If Dems in Ca are only out requesting Republican ballots by 3% in a state they have a 13% lead and a good potion is coming from the bay area this is not good new for the dems......
I was doing to some telephone calls for a candidate in this liberal Mecca of Hawaii and the calls were breaking 7 to 5 for the Republicans. I have never seen this before. The Governor, a Congressman, and even a Senator could be in play. And if that is happening here, on the mainland the numbers must be far worse for the Democrats. And here, early voting was mostly Republican from what I could see.
Journolist alumnus Karen Tumulty still running her little legs off inside her hamster wheel, trying ever so hard.
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